The Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Solid Waste Between the United States and Mexico
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines the transboundary movement of hazardous waste between the United States and Mexico and the consequences resulting from policy failures to regulate the trade. This issue continues to intensify despite measures and policies passed by the United States, impacting the public and environmental health of Mexican cities and communities near the United States - Mexico border. This research discusses the practice of hazardous waste trading, a global phenomenon, and focuses on the United States particularly because it is the largest exporter in the global waste trade. Focus is placed on U.S. trade with Mexico because although Canada imports the most waste from the U.S., Mexico receives the second most waste but cannot deal with it in an environmentally sound manner. Examination of the historical context influencing this trade relationship and policy framework is used to pinpoint weaknesses and potential leverage points to provide recommendations. Limited data on exports from the U.S. is publicly available on waste classification and volumes, restricting the research scope and being a policy failure itself. A content analysis of news sources and legal documentation provides information regarding the trade’s impact on communities. Residents near waste disposal sites report illnesses further exemplifying the need for stricter regulations within this trade to protect human health. Companies implicated include Tesla, Sally's Beauty Supply, and the U.S. Navy. This case study emphasizes the ethical and environmental risks of the global waste trade, placing responsibility on developed nations and corporations. As a part of this report, policy recommendations are made to further strengthen the framework of international policies, U.S. domestic policy, and the bilateral agreements with Mexico that regulate the waste trade.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it